Why I Started Wearing Historical Fashion Daily & Answering Your Other Questions! (Q&A) 

Hi everyone! Thank you so much for your wonderful questions and for supporting my art and channel! I hope this video provided some answers and some background into what my life is like 🥰 See you in two weeks for another video!

I've really loved hearing about your time with your mother's family and how it influences your own personal values--it really is a beautiful thing! There are so many ways to live life, and it's awesome that you got to experience slow living from a young age. Oh, and from one previously-houseless-teen to another: Massive props to you and your friends 💙 Solidarity and support is invaluable!

When living in connection with nature, the beginning and end of planting and harvesting become the natural holidays to celebrate in the spring and autumn. And of course, where I live we have a very old holiday that we still celebrate to some extent that means far more to us than the winter solstice: the return of the sun every January.

You are an extremely inspiring amazing person, I feel honoured to get to know you through RU-vid ❤❤

I’m currently reading braiding sweetgrass! What an amazing book

Hi Vasi, I know how this personal disclosure is hard to do and I appreciate your story. My husbands family is from Vladikavkaz, Russia and it has always been so valuable to plan trips back to the region he grew up for family connection and teaching our son about another culture. He also spent many years in the Perm Ballet school and graduated from there, not far from Bashkortostan. He has spent so much time here in the US and it is nice to be able to learn recipes that he grew up eating and appreciate even the style of dance and history of his family in this region of the southernmost part of Russia. Thanks for sharing :) also this explains my color comments on your videos in the past, hahaha

Thanks for sharing. As for creativity - this always resonated with me: "creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence" Osho

Thank you for your openness. As someone who is only just now exploring and awakening into a more spiritual life. Slow living and sustainable living are becoming more and more important to me. I love your channel and you pov. Thank you

I’m of Irish-Norse ancestry, living in America, and a revert to Islam. I just recently began teaching myself to sew small things and fell in awe of your channel and have spiraled into the world of historical clothing. I’m very interested in learning to sew my own historical clothes, which thankfully are usually much more modest naturally, as this is how I dress. My only concern is finding similar/matching fabric for my hijab (that completely covers my hair and neck). I worry it won’t fit into the typical idea of historical fashion from a European view. InshaAllah this I will find some creativity and my own style in this. Thank you for sharing your story and your mind with us ❤️

So special to learn more about you! Thank you for sharing

Thank you for sharing part of yourself with us! I’ve been meaning to read Braiding Sweetgrass for some time now, and with this reminder I’ll put a hold on it from the library. It sounds like you’ve had a lot of serendipity in your life as well as the courage to take chances. I’m impressed with all the traveling you’ve done! What an adventurous life, I’d definitely want to hear more if you’re ever inclined ❤. As an inclusive Heathen, I’m also an animist, and share many of the feelings and philosophies about nature that you do, and although I’m coming to it much later in life, I feel more fulfilled than ever. I’m making my first historical outfit from the corset to the outer wear, and look forward to adopting historical dress over time as I create each outfit. I’m staring with a late Victorian ensemble, but also plan to do some 18th century as well as some Viking age Scandinavian outfits as well. Your channel has been such an inspiration to me, and I’m grateful to you for sharing your journey with us. Take care.

Thank-you for sharing your history and heritage!

Lol V, you're the second friend of mine to mention Braiding Sweetgrass recently, I guess it's a sign to read it.

I love that we lived in Iceland at the same time hehe 💃 I would love to read your poetry book!!

You are a beautiful being. I've been told I was born 200 years to late. Please continue to be who you are. You're a very enchanting, wonderful, lovely being. Thank you.

Hello and good morning 🌞 I enjoyed your beautiful video today. You are amazing and I love your channel 👍

The question of work life balance when one has overlap in "work" and in "leisure" activities is a real one. Doing what you love to do can backfire when it makes a work of love into doing work for work's sake. I think your perspective on that conundrum is a quite good one to have.

For some reason, in this video, your work with technology and wearing of Victorian garments just so happens to remind me of Ada Lovelace! The one who is the first computer coder, I believe. I would be really interested in your poetry and with the video you made of sharing words we no longer use, it could be really inspirational and we'd be supporting you financially as well!

My ancestors are from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, and I've learned some of the Celtic Languages and write poetry in those forms. It just "feels" right. I do almost all folk fashion/history bounding with linen and wool. I write graphic novels as a way to fulfill my ten year old self that wanted to write fantasy novels, but I also do gardening and am on a raw diet as a balance to doing high end bookkeeping and taxes as my day job. My husband is a devout Buddhist, but I don't like their attitude toward women, so created my own paganism which I demonstrate in my books and tarot cards that has no ties to Classical imagery. I don't have a social life!! :D Well, I have the gardening girls and a few very good friends. But being in my 60s I've learned to just do without all the mental shenangans. I had to learn that when I was working two full time jobs and only had an hour a day to be creative. I too, was homeless, but more tragic as a teen runaway where most of my friends who were prostitutes died of AIDS. You just learn to appreciate the small things like breathing and trees. Love your channel!

Thank you for sharing so much about your life and what's important to you. It is important to understand how someone feels and thinks. We all have deep reasons and motivations for the way we live. Your welfare will definitely be in my prayers!

As a Canadian, I love that you adopted "colour" as your spelling of choice. I had such a hard time connecting to my ancestral home (Serbia) but you have inspired me to try connecting to it through sewing. My grandmother gave me a book of 1960s Serbian handiwork. :) I appreciated your answer to the questoon on screentime! I relate to the challenge of distancing from screens when friends are far away. How would one practice the sabbath, if their people are connected to through the computer? See you next video :)

The song Aurora by Bjork is intoxicating.

I do 12th C primarily in linen, hand sewn and wash & dry in machines. My oldest piece is currently ~16 yo.

This was so interesting to hear about! We have lots of interests in common; including permaculture, language, historical fashion, and buddhism. Would love to hear about any of those on your channel. Thank you so much for all you share. Lots of love from Denmark ❤

I also grew up in California and I have family in southern Oregon. I am now far away from what's left of my family living in Minnesota. At least I have my kids, though. I would very much like to move to Ireland, though, because of the religious tradition there and the culture. I would like, also, to get away from the problematic situation with guns in the United States. I watch this channel because I like your sewing and also the way you dress. I feel like we don't have to agree with each other on everything like political issues in order to appreciate one another. So, even though I am a conservative Christian, I enjoy your channel and your hobby.

That was fascinating! I came to this channel out of a love for historical clothing and playing dress up in general, I had no idea you were such an adventurer!

What a nice chill video, V! It's really good to be able to learn more about you and your beautiful work! And I love the ceramic pieces you showed! 🥰

Aloha! Just wanted to give you a shout out and let you know that I believe in you! Thank you for sharing! My family is mixed, I have Tengri spirituality in my family. We Carry the Name Alpin, which is a derived from the minor deities in Tengri called Alps.

You are really interesting. I've never heard about Volga Tatars, but have always loved that lifestyle (like farming and old timey things)

Happy you have found your roots - can't wait to hear when you move to wherever that is so you can take us with you for your adventures.

I've been watching your videos for like a year but I had no idea you're also a musician! So cool 😎

Loved hearing from you in this more relaxed video! Especially when you talk about your passion for poetry and quoting Braiding Sweetgrass (on of my most underlined books as well!). I would love if you would recommend more books and poetry that you love in the future! :)

Would be very interested in reading your poetry! Thank you for sharing, I found this soothing and inspiring to listen to.

I'd love a poetry book written by you 🤩 loved this q&a thanks for sharing

I just found you last night slightly before midnight and have been listening/watching a mix of your videos for the last three hours. I find that in a broader sense we have a few things in common. I like how you present your videos and yourself within them. I look forward to watching more of your content and wish you continued healing, prosperity, happiness, and blessings

Such an interesting video! Thanks for sharing some of your stories!

Thank you so much for your sharing of details. I hope you have a lovely week!

Wonderful video! Thank you for sharing those pieces of yourself and your life 💗

Such a brilliant life story!

I appreciate and identify with your journey. Thank you so much for sharing.

I incorporate a lot of animism into my own practice as well. I really enjoyed hearing about how you approach it! Have a beautiful day 😊

I would love to read your poem book! As someone who shares many of your passions and philosophies in life I'm intrigued to see how those might reflect in your poems. Much love!

I love to read!! I would really love to read your poems! I hope someday you will make them into a book. I really enjoy your Q&A video!!!

I would love to read your poetry as everything you do is poetic, speech, film and presentation. I wasn't surprised to hear that your lyrics are poetic too and am looking forward to hearing them. Thank you for sharing stories of your interesting life.

Vasi, It was wonderful to hear you share some very beautiful, inspiring and insightful parts of you, your beliefs and your thoughtful way you live. I have been deeply moved emotionally by your last several video's. I live so many of the same values. I have said many times that from your first video, I felt an emotional, somewhat motherly, kinship towards you. I am very proud of you. Your spirit is beautiful, kind and strong. With joy , Audri

I got here so early today 😂❤ this is a great video idea! 💕

You are such a lovely lady with a beautiful spirit. You are an inspiration to me and I would love to read your poetry and hear your music. I relate to your feelings about sewing, wearing the clothing that makes u feel good, connecting with your heritage as well as the spiritual beliefs you shared. I am a Christian, but definitely not mainstream. Lol I believe the power of nature can assist in the healing of our minds and spirits through meditation and thanksgiving. You are truly a treasure❤

Hi! I’m happy to see your Q&A, lately I’ve been more interested in genealogy and learning about my own family history simply because, well, now that my grandfather is gone, his genealogy work is gone with him, and I don’t want the knowledge of the past to disappear.

Enjoyed this video, you're a very fascinating person with such varied interests, passions, and hobbies! it's always a joy to listen to you talk about them, I find it very impressive that you find the time for so many different things! Looking forward to hearing that music EP of yours at some point! A quick extra question from me if I may ask, pourquoi tu apprends présentement le francais? :)

My short answer would be: Because there are clothes that had literally hundreds of years to evolve and be comfortable and practical and pretty at the same time, and additional make ecological sense, like for example wearing clothes made of sheepwool. I prefer that very much to plastic fleece.

As with the rest of your videos, this has been a fascinating look into your life. I must admit that I was surprised to learn that you grew up in the western US as I was up until this moment convinced that you grew up in Canada due to some of your speech patterns. I was most interested to learn about your philosophical beliefs, because virtually my entire adult life I have considered myself to be a deist, which much as you describe Buddhism has a lot of latitude with regard to beliefs and no strict rules. I also consider myself to be a bit of a pagan because of my deep love and respect for nature and the spirits that dwell within it which I have held since I was a child. On another note, it is because of you that I have become interested in the traditional clothing of a certain branch of my own family, though I do not sew. Lastly, I did not know that you were a singer/songwriter, I look forward to hearing your album when it is released. Sorry this is so long. PS: I have just added Braiding Sweetgrass to my To Be Read list, thank you for the recommendation.

Thank you!

thank you for sharing. I love your creativity and versatility - and reading "Braiding Sweetgrass", a book that had a big impact on my life, Be happy and safe! 🙏❣

I totally agree with your view on sewing machines. I tried using them for multiple projecta, but I got really scared when a needle snapped and flew right near my eyes. I'm now trying to learn hand sewing, but it feels very overwhelming. If you have any tips and trick, please share!

I remember you saying in your capsule wardrobe video that you would do a video on historical undergarments, because that would help people who are getting started too. I don't recall seeing a video like that from you. Is that still a video you'd like to make?

You're sooo coooool.😊

as far as the washing goes...does anyone know how they really washed clothes in the past? They literally beat them with a battling stick & plunged them, & lifted them up with sticks & wrung them on a wooden post. I don't realistically think that a modern washing machine gives clothes HALF the abuse that boiling them & beating on them did in the past. In fact, our clothes probably are not all that clean with the modern way of washing, tbh. your clothes are lovely and the colors suit your perfect complexion. I have a daughter that was interested in historical dress for a time & did lots & lots of hand stitching. Kind of wish she was still into it.

I would love to read some of your poetry.

You might want to visit Japan and/or Taiwan for all kinds of Buddhism and shamanism. We also perserve many treaditional costune. 😊

Cool video! Thanks! I have a question, what is something you would really love to sew, but probably won't. For me, it's an old fashioned nuns habit. I suppose maybe a Benedictine. The long tunic, scapular, and the big cowl that the choir nuns wear over the habit. Also the veil and cap and wimple,etc. I don't know any Benedictine nuns, and even though there are many, I couldn't donate it to any of them if I did make it because they don't wear those habits anymore. They changed after Vatican II. Plus, I don't even know where I would get a pattern. It's still my dream sewing project though lol. Do you have one and if so, what is it?

Id love to see a book on poetry its really becoming a bit of a lost art

What a cool video. Very interesting. I grew up in a Hindu-based cult and now I'm just fully a Hindu. My husband is a Buddhist. His branch of Buddhism and my branch of Hindusim (Advaita) fit together very well.

Cool 😀

How did you go from living in your car to Iceland? I'm currently being kicked off the land where I've been living in my trailer in South-Western Ontario for nine months, and I don't know what the next step is. I've been living under the poverty level for all of my adult life, but I've been able save up and travel to spend the last 11 winters in central Mexico, which has saved my mental health and my life. I've been enamoured of Iceland for many years but it seems very expensive.

What patterns do you use (if any) for your historical dress?

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Привет из России! Спасибо за вдохновение и надежду. Вы очень умная, трудолюбивая и красивая.

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What kind of wool detergent do you use?

Not me jumping at you speaking perfect Russian😳

What language or which languages do you write your poetry in?

I guess this is why i couldnt figure out your accent